What Would You Like to See in 2014?Follow

lol their answer kind of wreaked of "oh I can't be bothered to change it" lol.
(Or is it me?)
Thanks for finding that. ;)

I believe that SE is just keeping XI around to fund for XIV. I thought SE was using the login campaign to keep people interested in playing, but I literally just realized, it's probably just to maintain monthly payments. I don't SE doing anything resource intensive for XI anytime soon. All of that may change after they start charging for XIV.

Yeah I am not sure why liking voidwatch ruins my credibility. I felt confident enough to lead runs, could get a full alliance for it usually in under an hour, and be done the event less than an hour after that. Granted I was already working on BLU when it started so I had a high demand job for it, but because of the proc system (which was harder to game than abyssea's procs) there were slots for a lot of jobs that were highly underused in other alliance content. BST and PUP weren't all that popular for it, but pretty much every other job could make an argument for a slot.

The drop rates are pretty crummy but that helped extend interest in the content too. I mean seriously I would not have done hundreds and hundreds of akvan runs if I didn't want that shiny shirt (still don't have the damn thing, lol) but because of the empy upgrade market even when I wasn't getting that specific item I was still making money and doing more than standing around watching my moogle spin checking ffxiah every 15 minutes to see that there hasn't been a shout for anything but a 3-4 song brd for the last 2 hours.

XIV doesn't really need XI's money, either. If we're to believe the 100k climbing sub number with an initial 2.0 launch of 1.2m and, them sitting at 1.5m+ users isn't bad for the wallet. Either way, I really like what this update did for slipping in solo/low-man content. It's kinda like magian stuff, but without so much the encumbering mechanics. It's also designed smartly to let people either catch up quickly or set goals as new characters (like killing 10 mobs in each zone) so they'll be ready once they're 99 to jump into Adoulin.

I love the world of vanadiel, would really like to see graphic overhaul and maybe speed up the combat etc. also the much needed UI upgrades that were promised. my dream would be a complete remake with this day's graphics and faster smoother engine.

Some of the things I would like to see
* Remove the cap from ENM fights already. Most of the loot is irrelevant today anyhow, and you can't go in more than once every few days anyhow. There are a few things (PUP attachments, a bard spell) that are behind content that you can't solo, and it's hard to get someone else interested, especially when you get only one attempt per week, so no trial run.

* Let BST jug pets zone already. Yeah, they have a crappy excuse that seems more like "we don't want to bother". I understand about charm pets being actual zone mobs, but jug pets are like pets from the other pet jobs. Which can zone.

* I would also like to see BCNM content level restrictions at least reduced to the point that I could solo away some of those seals. (I'm sitting on over 2k B-seals, but I have all my jobs leveled to 99, so I know it's not easy for me to get more.)

This update already did something I've been wanting, which is to remove the 3-player minimum from Assault, Salvage, and Nyzul (yeah, I know about the lamps). For a long time Salvage has been dual-box-ONRY territory. So I just let the points pile up. I have like 150k assault points now, but haven't had time to start Salvage runs yet. I did get five more Assault missions done that first day, though.

My guess is they must have some kind of boardroom metrics of which "logins per day" is one of them. It's probably a relatively useless metric, but this is Japan, so nobody gets to question the middle manager who came up with it. Or it was created to make an upper manager feel good. But...

* Make the redemption period for login campaigns be more than a week after it ends! I'm half joking, but I missed out on redeeming the first one because I expected 2 weeks. That's not the only one I missed out on, but I'm watching this one because I can get 24000 plasm out of it. (8k per char) Definitely need to update the laptop so I can log in while away for the holidays.

I'm still not going to do them, but I agree with you. Those are absurd numbers that were obviously designed to slow down the super hardcore that just had to have the best stuff, especially with VW not being popular any more. Combine that with lowered server populations, and it's just silly. You need 99 to get to the higher level stuff, right? I'll probably get a Kenkonken eventually, and it'll end up being a swap piece for maneuvers. Meanwhile, I got a Tojil clear last weekend, and one way or another I will probably have oats by mid next month.

I know it's probably something they wouldn't want to do, though for PC gamers it's something we've had access to for awhile anyway through .dat swaps, but I'd like it if they gave the option to do vanity changes for gear. Most other MMOs have or will have such options, to be able to change an armor's appearance to that of another armor piece while retaining the same stats, but it'd be nice for Square Enix to have such a thing in the game normally so you don't have to track down the random .dat file through Altana Viewer or something.

yessss. This might encourage a little activity in outdated events as well and maybe even a little commerce on the AH for interesting looking clothes that are useless stat-wise.

I'd like to see one of these two things:
1) Allow Scherzo, Earthen Armor, and Migawari -type effects to apply to all complete actions, not just single hits. Currently a multi-hit TP move that does 4000 damage will not proc this class of damage reduction buffs, while a single-hit TP move will. Though they have their uses, this means that many TP moves are unaffected and makes them much more strategically impotent than they would be otherwise.

2) Reduce racial bonuses and rebalance content. Currently content seems to be theoretically balanced so that a Hume DD can play conservatively and not get one-shotted. Galkas/Elvaan have added insurance in case your healers suck, and Tarus are just SoL.



I'd also like to see the reduction of JA delay down to 1 or 0.5 seconds.

I could get behind this if they lowered the currency and alexandrite needed for relics and mythics. Those have huge costs up-front, while empyrean put it at the end.

ROE would have the various content options:
Do 4 Undead Swarm Besigeds
Do 4 Troll besigeds
Do 4 Mamool Besigeds

Do 3 Windurst Campaigns
Do 3 Bastok Campaigns
Do 3 Sandy Campaigns
Do 3 Northlands campaigns

That should be added in the Jan patch

I suspect they'll expand on that eventually. Keep in mind stuff like NPC fellows and FoV/GoV started off in more basic zones or with less convenient positioning. Feel like they should extend that courtesy to Monstrosity, too. While there's definitely a wide array of zones to pick from, sometimes they do get crowded. I know there are some spots I knew in WotG I wouldn't have minded using.

Would kind of hope they'd add a means to augment the gear you can get from it, though. More akin to Delve's with paths than Skirmish's random chance.